The first few salvos from each side did no damage, for the range had not been gauged accurately.

A broad-gauged merchant is a good deal like our friend Doc Graver, who'd cut out the washerwoman's appendix for five dollars, but would charge a thousand for showing me minehe wants all the money that's coming to him, but he really doesn't give a cuss how much it is, just so he gets the appendix.

All through the meal Hugh Manners engaged Pete Reeve in soft, rapid-voiced conversation which was so nicely gauged as to range that Bull Hunter heard no more than murmurs.

I am satisfied the loan of three hundred thousand was but a lureand how cleverly the man gauged us!"

The composite I now show is what I call a hotch-pot composite; its use is to form a standard whence deviations towards any particular sub-type may be conveniently gauged.

She looked at the tense blue-corded veins in her wrist, full of fine pure blood,gauged herself coolly, her lease of life, her power of endurance,measured it out against the work waiting for her.

So, in the same way, a physiognomy is correctly gauged only by one to whom it is still strange, who has not grown accustomed to the face by constantly meeting and conversing with the man himself.

He was now replete and warm; and he was in nowise frightened for his host, having gauged him as justly as was possible between two such different characters.

Cibber, who seems to have keenly gauged the man, has left us an account of how Rich[A] treated his actors.

When you have once learned his standard of truth, you can readily gauge an Arab's expressions, and regulate your own accordingly.

If a man's achievement be rightly gauged by the difficulties he has overcome, then M. CLEMENCEAU, called unwillingly and unwilling at the most desperate crisis of the destiny of a distracted and dispirited France hammered by the enemy's legions and with the pass ready for sale by false friends, may well justify Mr. HYNDMAN'S verdict on him as the statesman of the Great War.

All kinds of units or rules of assessment were resorted to from parish to parish, and (apparently) sometimes no fixed unit at all was taken, men's ability to pay being roughly gauged, or a man being permitted to rate himself, or give his "benevolence.

No man is great who does not have Sympathy plus, and the greatness of men can be safely gauged by their sympathies.

The conflict could not be adequately gauged by such questions as whether the Slave States had or had not a constitutional right to establish an independent government; whether the Free States were animated by philanthropy or by love of empire; whether it was to the political advantage of England that the American Union should be divided and consequently weakened.

But whether through sun-blindness or shaken by anger, the Colonel was handling his shovel uncertainly, fumbling at the gravel, content with half a shovelful, and sometimes gauging the distance to the box so badly that some of the pay fell down again in the creek.